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January 13, 2006|Volume 34, Number 15|Two-Week Issue


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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart



Mozart's 250th birthday bash begins Jan. 27

Yale will host several events marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The first, an all-Mozart concert by the Yale Philharmonia and clarinetist David Shifrin, will take place on the composer's actual birthday, Friday, Jan. 27, at 8 p.m. in Sprague Hall, corner of College and Wall streets. Shinik Hahm will conduct the orchestra.

Mozart was the son of composer and violinist Leopold Mozart. The young musician and his sister, Maria Anna "Nannerl," were both accomplished harsichordists, and he also mastered the violin. The two children were performing before audiences throughout Europe by the time Mozart was 7.

The younger Mozart began composing minuets at age 5, completed his first symphony and published his first sonatas at age 9, and finished his first opera at age 12. All told, during his 35 years of life, Mozart composed over 600 works including 21 stage and opera works, 15 masses, over 50 symphonies, 25 piano concertos, 12 violin concertos, 27 concert arias, 17 piano sonatas, 26 string quartets, and many other pieces.

The program for the Jan. 27 concert at Yale includes the "Clarinet Concerto" -- the last concerto Mozart wrote -- featuring Shifrin, a renowned performer and professor of clarinet at the School of Music; the overture to "Marriage of Figaro"; and the Symphony No. 41 in C major, "Jupiter," Mozart's last symphony.

Although the Yale Philharmonia usually performs in Woolsey Hall, this concert is being held in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall in order to provide a clear acoustical environment for the music. The Philharmonia is Yale's graduate-level orchestra, whose members are concert artists from around the world studying at the School of Music.

Tickets to the concert are $20, $15 and $10; $8 for students. For more information, visit the School of Music website at www.yale.edu/music or call (203) 432-4158. Box office hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. in the Sprague Hall lobby.

Future Mozart tribute events include:

* The Yale Collegium Musicum on Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 5:15 p.m. at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St.

* Yale Opera's production of "Cosi fan tutte," Friday-Saturday, Feb. 10-12 at the Shubert Theater, 247 College St.

* A concert of Mozart's violin sonatas on Sunday, Feb. 19, with School of Music faculty members Syoko Aki, violin, and Joan Panetti, piano.

* Sir Neville Marriner conducting the Philharmonia and Yale's choruses on Friday, Feb. 24, in Woolsey Hall, corner of College and Grove streets.

* The Yale Glee Club performance of Mozart's "Requiem" on Saturday, April 22, in Woolsey Hall.

For more information, visit the Music at Yale website, www.yale.edu/music or call (203) 432-4158.


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